Calking-tool.



A. E. OLSON.

GALKING TOOL.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 5, 1914.

Patented Dec. 8, 1914.

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CALKING-TOOL. I

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ADNA E. OLsoN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Holton, in the county of Muskegon and State of Michigan, have invented a new and Improved (Talking-Tool, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention relates to a tool for filling cracks or seams with cement, pitch, Wood filler, or similar materials and particularly to a novel tool adapted to be moved over a surface after the manner of a plane, in which a container chamber is provided in which a follower is adapted to be depressed to force the filling material downwardly through the bottom of the tool.

The invention will be particularly explained in the specific description following.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a tool em bodying my invention; Fig. 2 is a vertical section; and Fig. 3 is a horizontal section.

In constructing the practical embodiment illustrated as an example, a rear block 10 is provided and a nose block 11, to which are secured preferably sheet metal sides 12 by screws 13 or the like, thereby producing a container space or chamber. In the said chamber is arranged a follower lei, which in the preferred form has a face plate 15 suitably secured thereto, as by screws 15, the follower being rockable on a pin 16, at its forward end. The follower proJects upwardly above the top of the sides 12, and is adapted to be rocked so as to accommodate beneath the follower, a supply of filling material, as indicated at 17. The under side of the tool is flat, so that the tool may be moved over a floor or other surface in which cracks or seams are to be filled with the material 17. The rear block 10 is rounded at its back edge, as at 10 at the upper portion, so as to conveniently receive the palm of the operators hand. As the tool is moved over the floor by the hand grasping the rear block 10, a finger or fingers of the operator may be positioned on top of the follower 1a, to gradually exert a sufficient pressure on the follower to force the material 17 clownwardly through the open under side of the Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed February 5, 1914.

Pate 'ited Dec. 8, 1914.

Serial No. 816,859.

container chamber and into the crack 0 seam to be filled.

It W1 ll be observed that the opposed faces of the follower ll and the rear block 10 are correspondingly curved, the curve being struck from the pivot pin 16,. and the .face plate 15 at its'rea-r edge is preferably turned upwardly at the back of the follower 14 so as toinake a close contact with the forward face of the rear block 10 and prevent the filling material in the container chamber from escaping upward between the follower and the said rear block.

Preferably the rear block is provided at the under side with a facing plate 18 secured by a screw 19, or the like; thus the said plate will receive the wear at the rear 'end of the bottom where the pressure will be chamber to receive filling material, and having a fiat under side adapted to be moved over a surface, the said containing chamber opening at the said under side of the tool, and a rigid follower in the containing chamber and pivoted at its forward end adjacent to and near the bottom of the front wall of the chamber for vertical rocking movement, the follower having a face plate at its under side and projecting at its upper side through the top of the tool, the rear surface of the follower and the opposed surface of the tool at the rear wall of the filling chamber being correspondingly curved to lie in close relation.

2. A tool for filling cracks or seams, having a flat bottom adapted to be moved over a surface, a chamber in said tool opening through the said bottom and extending up wardlv through the top of the tool, and a follower in the said chamber pivotally mounted in the chamber near the bottom of the chamber and adjacent to the front wall thereof and projecting at its upper end through the top of the chamber, said follower being adapted to be brought to a raised position to accommodate a supply of materialin the containing-chamber and being rockable in a downward direction to force the material outward at the bottom as the tool is moved over a surface.

3. A tool of the character described, comprising a rear block having a rounded surface at the upper portion to receive the palm of the hand of the user, a nose block spaced 7 forwardly from the said rear block, sheet metal sides secured to said blocks, the blocks and the said sides forming a chamber open at the top and bottom, and a follower pivotally secured at its forward end to the sheet metal sides adjacent to the nose block, and said follower projecting at its rear portion through the opentop of the chamber and having a face plate at the under side, the face plate being turned upwardly at its rear end against the rear face of the follower, the forward face of the rear block being concave and the said upturned end of the face plate on the follower being adapted to move in close relation to the said concave surface. In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ADNA E. OLSON.

WVitnesses: I 7

JOHN E. NASH, FLOYD J. BUNoH.

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Washington, D. G. 

